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Feb 9, 2012, 10:56 pm
The August 10th, 2011 blog entry, 'Great quotes', highlighted a quote by Marine Gen. John R. Allen, the top commander in Afghanistan, who claimed that “All across Afghanistan, the insurgents are losing. They’re losing territory, they’re losing leadership, they’re losing weapons and suppl... Comment - Like
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Feb 5, 2012, 7:35 pm
Source: NatGeo
The July 24th, 2011 bog entry, 'Brief update (Afghan fauna)', linked to an Al Jazeera article reporting that the Wildlife Conservation Society had found "...a surprisingly healthy population of snow leopards... in northeastern Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor..."
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Feb 5, 2012, 6:01 pm
Source: U.S. Trade and Investment in the Middle East and North Africa: Overview and Issues for Congress (41-pg CRS PDF) Comment - Like
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Feb 5, 2012, 11:50 am
Source: Mobile Action Codes In Magazine Advertising 2011
From Advertisers Drive Growth in Mags’ Use of Mobile Action Codes: "... Magazines’ use of mobile action codes, including all 2D barcodes, QR codes, Microsoft Tags, and watermarks, exploded in 2011, rising 439% from Q1 to Q4, according to... Comment - Like
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Feb 4, 2012, 12:16 pm
A number of charts re taxes:
Source: The Struggling Middle Class
Source: Table H-2. Share of Aggregate Income Received by Each Fifth and Top 5 Percent of Households
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Source: Summary of Latest Federal Individual Income Tax Data
Source: Misconceptions and Realities About Who Pays Taxes
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Feb 3, 2012, 5:04 am
Source: Comparing the Compensation of Federal and Private-Sector Employees
Politicians (and others) have long argued whether federal employees are paid better, as well as, or worse than similar public sector employees. This CBO study looks at the questions, and concludes:
CBO combined its analyses... Comment - Like
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Feb 2, 2012, 10:46 pm
Source: Restricting Space in the OPT: Area C Map (PDF)
Some facts:
Over 60 percent of the West Bank is considered Area C, where Israel retains control over planning and zoning among other issues.An estimated 150,000 Palestinians live in Area C, including 27,500 Bedouin and other herders.More than ... Comment - Like
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Jan 31, 2012, 8:54 pm
Picture credit: Belfast peace walls - in pictures
The May 6th, 2008 blog entry 'Peace Walls' noted that "... ten years after the signing of the Good Friday agreement that brought peace to the area, these walls remain. Some want them taken down, but many do not. In fact new “peace walls” (as th... Comment - Like
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Jan 29, 2012, 2:12 pm
According to the Washington Post, France agrees to two decades of support in Afghanistan, despite attack on its troops. Reading the article the only date referenced with respect to France's involvement comes in the sentence "... French troops will continue to train their Afghan counterparts well bey... Comment - Like
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Jan 28, 2012, 9:08 am
Source: "My Message is Simple": Obama's SOTU Written at 8th Grade Level for Third Straight Year.
"For the third consecutive State of the Union Address, Barack Obama spoke in clear, plain terms. And for the third straight Address, the President's speech was written at an eighth-grade level. In Oba... Comment - Like
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Jan 27, 2012, 7:37 pm
Four years ago this blogger started this blog and posted a January 27th, 2008 entry related to the death of Benazir Bhutto... Not much more to say than what was said at the 3rd anniversary. Comment - Like
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Jan 26, 2012, 6:49 pm
Source: 2010 Complementary and Alternative Medicine Survey of Hospitals
"... The purpose of thissurvey was to garner in-depth information about the types of CAM programs and services being offered by hospitals, including their program costs, revenue, staffing, reimbursement and other business strate... Comment - Like
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Jan 23, 2012, 6:00 am
Source: Romney’s Tax Returns and Effective Tax Rates of the Rich
From 2009 (latest available from the IRS), "... The table also shows the average, or effective, tax rate that taxpayers in each income group pay. For the entire universe of American taxpayers, the average tax rate is 11 percent of ... Comment - Like
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Jan 22, 2012, 6:45 pm
Source: Lessons from Medicare's Demonstration Projects on Disease Management, Care Coordination, and Value-Based Payment
Over several years Medicare has tried two broad categories of demonstration projects to improve care and to see if it is possible to reduce health care expenses. The two categor... Comment - Like
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Jan 21, 2012, 10:05 pm
An earlier post, 'Help on the way?', had noted that Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota was among the worthy Senators who "... pop up in the news every time a drug shortage occurs and hits the newspapers..." Well, it's either for publicity, to be seen doing something about a national problem, or beca... Comment - Like
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Jan 21, 2012, 9:10 pm
WHEREAS, Israel has been granted her lands under and through the oldest recorded deed as reported in the Old Testament, a tome of scripture held sacred and reverenced by Jew and Christian, alike, as the acts and words of God; and,
WHEREAS, as the Grantor of said lands, God stated to the Jewish peopl... Comment - Like
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Jan 21, 2012, 4:08 pm
"... Already fending off questions about his vast personal wealth, Romney is facing additional scrutiny this week thanks to reports that he has as much as $8 million invested in funds listed in the Cayman Islands. Though Romney does still pay U.S. taxes on his income from these funds, the Cayman add... Comment - Like
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Oct 31, 2011, 4:09 am
Source: The Big Picture: The Natural World "... Endangered Mexican red-kneed tarantulas sat in plastic bags at the Zurich airport after being confiscated from a traveler's luggage ..." Comment - Like
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Oct 31, 2011, 4:09 am
Source: The Big Picture: The Natural World "... Endangered Mexican red-kneed tarantulas sat in plastic bags at the Zurich airport after being confiscated from a traveler's luggage ..." Comment - Like
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Oct 31, 2011, 4:09 am
Source: The Big Picture: The Natural World "... Endangered Mexican red-kneed tarantulas sat in plastic bags at the Zurich airport after being confiscated from a traveler's luggage ..." Comment - Like
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Oct 30, 2011, 4:20 pm
Some QR implementations, found "in the wild.' The first, unfortunately, only available for those with Android or Apple smartphones....
The second an automotive print ad... Unfortunately the site requires Flash, so (again) unavailable on some smartphones...
The third on an insert in the daily news... Comment - Like
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Oct 30, 2011, 4:20 pm
Some QR implementations, found "in the wild.' The first, unfortunately, only available for those with Android or Apple smartphones....
The second an automotive print ad... Unfortunately the site requires Flash, so (again) unavailable on some smartphones...
The third on an insert in the daily news... Comment - Like
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Oct 30, 2011, 4:20 pm
Some QR implementations, found "in the wild.' The first, unfortunately, only available for those with Android or Apple smartphones....
The second an automotive print ad... Unfortunately the site requires Flash, so (again) unavailable on some smartphones...
The third on an insert in the daily news... Comment - Like
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Sep 26, 2011, 6:46 pm
Source: The Big Picture - A glimpse of North Korea Lunch aboard the inaugural trip of a North Korean cruise ship trying to encourage Chinese (and other) tourism... (Budweiser and dried fish) Comment - Like
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Sep 25, 2011, 7:30 pm
Another QR code reader is TinyBarCode by Handrapid. Per AppWorld: "Barcode scanner/writer for BlackBerry® *Friendly user interface *Support OS6 and OS7 *Easy to use *Send generator with Email *Support "Code 128/39", "DataMatrix", "EAN-13", "EAN-8","ITF ","PDF417","UPC-A","UPC-E","QR Code""
As a... Comment - Like
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Sep 24, 2011, 5:43 pm
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Source: Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature Comment - Like
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Sep 20, 2011, 9:09 pm
"Well, it's just we believe that to be the case."
- U.S. Ambassador Cameron Munter. Munter, in an interview on Pakistan Radio, had claimed that there was evidence linking the Haqqani network to the Pakistan government. When pressed for details and/or evidence, this was the gem he came up with... See... Comment - Like
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Sep 17, 2011, 9:33 pm
Another BB QR code reader is QR CodeFX by appsFX... (for use with OS 6 and higher). Per the web site: "As QR Codes become more popular, and useful, make sure you use this easy to user QR Code Reader from appsFX. QR CodeFX™ for BlackBerry® will read a standard QR Code and take the appropriate act... Comment - Like
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Sep 14, 2011, 10:26 pm
Source: Associations Between Supply and Pharmacy Service Intensity, System Membership, and Hospital Performance. Comment - Like
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Sep 13, 2011, 4:46 am
A few recently observed examples of QR codes "in the wild" - on a Heinz ketchup bottle, a print BMW QR code, a QR code on a Time Warner cable bill, and advertising an upcoming charity occasion... The first three resolved to mobile sites, the fourth did not!
Previous QR and Tag entries:
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Sep 11, 2011, 8:30 am
The following is a list of links reviewing various BB QR Code readers. It's the same list that you get here in this bit.ly bundle, however it occurred to me that the application names were not easily visible in the bundle, so one might end up clicking through a number of links if searching for a par... Comment - Like
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Sep 11, 2011, 7:45 am
Another QR scanner for the BB is the compactly-named QR Scan by B Gibbons. $0.99 On firing it up you get to a simple main screen with one option - 'Scan QR Code'. This application directly reads the QR code and does not take a photo... As always, I head over to the QR Code Quality Standards Test v1.... Comment - Like
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Sep 11, 2011, 6:26 am
"... Afghanistan and other troubled lands today cry out for the sort of enlightened foreign administration once provided by self-confident Englishmen in jodhpurs and pith helmets...
... Once Afghanistan has been dealt with, America should turn its attention to Iraq. It will probably not be possib... Comment - Like
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Sep 10, 2011, 7:30 pm
Additional BB QR readers - XXI noted the appearance of the Arion and Carpet One QR scanners... these appear to be clones of the Mception Scanner, reviewed here. The screen shots below show the same look and feel, differentiated only in the 'About':
The bottom line: As with the Mception scanner, "... Comment - Like
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